Besides Semi-Automatic Weapons, What (Or Who) Do YOU Call "Baby"?

[KittyWampus]

I call my two ki-ki's (my two kitties) my furbabies.

that's about it.

[Ptah]

1. Two babies.

About ten years ago.

[KittyWampus]

2. those lool like some good kids right there. Like they get along together real well

[XemaSab]

3. My spotting scope is "The Baby"

Leica Televid APO 77mm.

With the 32W eyepiece.

Pure goodness. :D

Pure $2000 goodness. :D

[Redstone]

4. You call semi-automatic weapons "Baby?" PLEASE tell me that I'm being oblivious again,

because I don't recognize that as a joke.

Redstone

[Ptah]

7. During the Democratic debate last night, questions were fielded via youtube submissions.

A gun owner asked what the candidates would do to protect his baby.

Then he held up a firearm that looked dangerous.

[Redstone]

8. And THAT was a YouTube submission that CNN chose as being important? Fuck me.

I just give up. I really do.

Ptah, you and I, and all the other few rational people left in this country, we need to just give the fuck up and tend to our gardens and our families and ignore everything else because it's all just gone fucking nuts, hasn't it?

We REALLY need to do that. His GUN is his fucking BABY. And THAT got included in a Presidential debate?

Where, oh WHERE did my America go?

Redstone

[Ptah]

14. I try to look away.

:shrug:

Edit to resize the picture.

Please refresh.

[Redstone]

17. Thanks, my friend. That's a restful image.

Redstone

[LSK]

15. Joe Biden said the guy was crazy

It was worth watching, maybe you can find it on youtube.

[Redstone]

16. Thanks, but no. I do NOT want to watch such a sick fuck being validated by CNN.

I though they SCREENED the youtube questions?

Redstone

[KittyWampus]

18. they obviously DID screen the questions. So why pick such a loon?

or do we really need to ask?

[Redstone]

20. So why? I'm tired, and would be very interested to hear your opinion on this. Because I

simply CANNOT understand. Is it pandering to the Gun Nuts? Comic Relief? (If so, it's NOT funny.)

I'd genuinely appreciate your commentary. This thread is the first I've heard of this (to me) inexplicable inclusion in the YouTube questions.

Thanks in advance for your response, because I find this deeply troubling.

Redstone

[KittyWampus]

21. to put dems on the spot with a gotcha question? to give the GOP a prime opportunity

for a future attack ad against dems?

sigh

[Redstone]

23. Sigh, indeed. And certainly plausible. Thank you.

Redstone

[realisticphish]

43. or a joke?

just a thought :shrug:

[LSK]

22. pandering to gun nuts is my best guess

[Redstone]

25. Which, depressingly enough, EVERY SINGLE POLITICIAN in this country does, sooner

or later, don't they?

Sigh, yet again....

Redstone

[Skittles]

36. careful

there are gun nuts on DU too who get their panties in a wad when their sick fuck friends are denigrated

[krispos42]

37. Gun nut checking in!

You rang?


:-)




I dunno what that guy on Youtube was thinking. Unless maybe he was ex-infantry or ex-Marine or something. It's possible that his like of firearms has turned into some sort of fixation, I guess. It's not that he's happy he owns that particular one, it's that he's anthropomorphizing it.

I understand pride of ownership. This seems to go beyond that.

[Skittles]

39. you sound reasonable

I am not anti-gun - I learned how to shoot in the military - but I am anti-gun nut and anti-reckless ownership

[krispos42]

44. I wiped the foam off of my mouth before I answered your question

:-)


I guess I could see if he had a rare, historic, and/or expensive rifle. Something to be really proud of. Maybe his Grandpa's Luger that he took off of a dead Nazi at Normandy, or his great-great-Grandpa's original Colt Peacemaker. Something with some history with it.

I mean, I'm sure his AR-15 is a very nice gun that he can shoot well, BUT you really need some 'oompth' before you begin dressing it up in bonnets and booties, yanno?

[Skittles]

60. YOU KNOW IT

yes - you get it exactly! :hi:

[Ptah]

24. I consider the possibility that that person represents a segment of our population.

I don't know if the questions were chosen by public vote.

It might be a more democratic (small d) result of the internet.

[Redstone]

26. Ptah, my friend, anyone who refers to a firearm as "his baby" is a segment of our population

I'd rather not associate with. People who think of GUNS as "their babies" strike me as being deeply, fundamentally disturbed.

Last I heard, "babies" referred to HUMAN sons and daughters. Not to manufactured assemblies produced for the specific purpose of killing people's sons and daughters.

But that's just me.

Redstone

[Ptah]

27. See reply #1 to this thread.

Ptah

[Redstone]

28. I know you understand what's REALLY important. The sad part is that other don't seem to.

We'll tend to our kids and our gardens and make the best way that we can, won't we?

Because it's all we can do.

Redstone

[derby378]

31. Pro-Gun Progressive, Amendment II Democrats, Stonewall Shooting Sports...

Not trying to start anything here, but yes. Although I will hopefully never refer to any gun I might own as my "baby."

[benEzra]

52. .

.

[benEzra]

54. About 1 in 4 Dems personally owns a gun...

and about 27% of indies. Most are nonhunters (4 out of 5).



Since the rifle that YouTube Guy had is arguably the most popular civilian target rifle in America, I'd say that it was indeed a relevant question, considering the number of Dems who are gun owners (and for many gunnies, a candidate's stance on the issue is a potential deal-breaker). Although I'm sure that CNN purposely picked a guy who would come across as wierd; it was a setup in that sense, I think.

[benEzra]

55. Because CNN is far more committed to the ban-more-guns thing

than most Dems, or the public at large, and regularly runs hitpieces on the topic.

They picked that guy on purpose, and in that sense it was something of a setup for the candidates, I think.

[Skittles]

35. THANK YOU

not only do I think that was one sick fuck, it sickened me that such trash was allowed to be a part of a presidential debate

[JVS]

48. If anyone has a link, please post it

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. Oh jeez.....

That is just sad.

[benEzra]

51. It's the hole in the end of the barrel that's the dangerous part...

not what the rifle is shaped like.

The rifle the guy had (civilian AR-15 type carbine, which is the most popular civilian target rifle in America, excluding rimfires) is functionally identical to this "friendly looking" rifle (same caliber, same rate of fire, same range of capacities, same everything):





Which can also look like this:





And this:





Depending on what stock you put on it.



Rifles are rarely used in violent crimes in the U.S., though (less than 3% of all murders, per the FBI).

[Ptah]

58. I understand all that.

I was trying to comment on his calling his weapon his baby.

[Redneck Socialist]

33. Many gun owners are fond of their guns

While I wouldn't use that expression, the question as to how the major Democratic candidates view the right to keep and bear arms is a legitimate one and getting a rather more colorful member of the gun owning public to ask the question makes for good tv.

:shrug:

[originalpckelly]

5. I don't know what to call her, goosebump baby?

Sweetie-pie-leopard-bun?

Those little dorks aren't scaly, they're soft and smooth, they have almost people like skin, but it's bumpy, looks like goosebumps.

[KittyWampus]

12. that photo makes her head look kinda big. How do you sex a lizard, btw?

do they have external genitalia?

[astonamous]

6. This is my "baby"

It's funny, people that pass us on our walks don't think he's a baby, but...






...he does have a great sense of humor.

[KittyWampus]

9. a sense of humor and a very broad chest!

[astonamous]

19. Probably bred for dog fighting...

he's living the high life now...chasing rubber duckies in the pool and lounging on the couch.

[guitar man]

40. beautiful dog

I he an AB?

[astonamous]

62. Thank you! We think he is a mix of bulldog and dogo. n/t

[rockymountaindem]

10. This bad boy:

In your face with your wimpy "guns". Say hello to 85 millimeters of awesome. Bwa ha ha ha...

[Deja Q]

11. When I get a significant other, I'll let you know.

:D

[derby378]

29. My wife, my kitty cat, and my birdie are all my babies. However...

...if it's civil war in America and I'm huddled behind a ruined building with an AK in my hands and that AK is the only thing keeping me alive and out of the Bush administration's hands, I may form a fond attachment to my rifle.

I'd rather not test out that hypothesis, however. I wuv my kitty and birdie. And my wife, too. Why not? :hi:

[Redstone]

30. Uh-huh. You're going to fight the whole US Army with your knockoff AK. Nice fantasy.

Redstone

[derby378]

32. I've said my peace, and you've said yours...

Now let's chill together. This is the Lounge, after all - and I suspect we agree on more topics than we disagree on.

:hi:

[sakabatou]

34. My gf

[krispos42]

38. Nothing that I can think of, actually

Never called a SO that, or any of my kitties, or my kid (except in the sense of a infant), or my car ('the beater'). Guess I'm unusual.

[BarenakedLady]

41. Funny, I was just have this conversation with my son

this morning. I called him my baby. He said emphatically "I'm not a baby!"

"You'll always be my baby."
"I'm not a baby!"
"I'm still Nana's (my mom) baby!"
"You're not a baby! You are old!"
"I'll always be Nana and Grandpa's baby."
"Even when you're 100?"
"Yup! Even when you are a 100, you'll still be my baby."
*giggles*

[guitar man]

42. other than my actual baby daughter

this is my baby....:)

[reyd reid reed]

45. My youngest son.

But he's gotten to the age (he's 10) where he rolls his eyes and says, "Sheesh, Mom" whenever I do it.

I guess it's time to come up with something else.

Other than that? Nothing.

[NewWaveChick1981]

46. My dogs.

One of them was so small when we adopted her (8 weeks old) that we nicknamed her Baby Dog. I call them both Baby Dog when they cuddle up with me. :D

[Deep13]

47. Bill O'Reilly. He's a big goddamn baby. nt

[benEzra]

49. Besides my daughter, of course...my Sunfish project sailboat:

That's a rescued-from-oblivion Sunfish hull under a Minifish rig from an old wooden kit boat my dad and I built when I was a kid.




If I had one of these, it would also be my baby:







Here's my semiautomatic weapon (not my baby, but I damn sure don't want anybody trying to ban it):







And my main target/competition rifle (ditto):

[Dragonbreathp9d]

50. My fully automatic weapons

:)

and my bow and arrow :)











But seriously, my car and my dogs.

[DS1]

53. one of my servers

it's underpowered compared to the rest, but does its job wonderfully.

It must be mutual, anyone else who tries to 'administer' it just ends up breaking something. Only I can touch it without a total disaster.

[LaraMN]

56. Pretty much everyone.

:crazy:

[Seashell Eyes]

57. my late pet hamster

Rest in peace, Cookie.

[Dukkha]

59. my Fender Stractocaster

70's reissue model with David Gilmour EMG pickups and electronics.

I have an M4 Carbine rifle just like the one the guy touted as his "baby" but it's locked up under my bed, not lying next to me in bed.

[LostInAnomie]

61. A sandwich of larger than average size.

eom

[bumblebee1]

63. My cockatiel, Max. n/t